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A quick note that I will be talking about democratization of AI at the Mozfest 2017 event in London this weekend. Fuzzy.ai’s goal has always been to make it easier for developers to include artificial intelligence in more of their software, giving the ubiquitous experience we call casual intelligence. I think this is an important issue for technology and society, and I hope this session will help inspire software makers and thinkers to focus on more widespread and diverse AI development.

I gave a talk last night at MTLDATA about using Fuzzy.ai for task prioritization. It’s a really interesting subject for me, because tasks are an atomic part of our life and our work. How and when we complete tasks is an important part of any person’s productivity, and artificial intelligence that helps us do that effectively is really valuable.

Most of us use a task management system — whether it’s part of a project management system like Github issues or JIRA, or a personal system like Todoist, todo.txt or Google Tasks. All of them have ways to define important data about our tasks, but very few of them make intelligent recommendations for what to do now.

Intelligent organizations are starting to work on this problem today. After all, having people inside your company work on tasks that are timely, impactful, actionable and personal can make a huge difference. Tying the performance of tasks to metrics within the organization can drive much better relevance tracking.

To test out these ideas, we built a cool task prioritization project using the Todoist API. If you log into the site at https://tasks.fuzzy.ai/ with Todoist authorization, it will automatically score and rank your upcoming tasks, putting the most relevant items first.

Todoist has a relatively simple schema for tasks. We used that data for building a fuzzy.ai agent that uses time, priority, and other features to determine the task’s relevancy.

We think there’s some interesting future developments here. Keyword matching with previously relevant tasks is a big one. Providing other backends, like Github issues, is another. (I use Todo.txt, so I’m especially interested in this.) Most of all, building in different kinds of performance metrics to see if your tasks really matter is going to be the biggest.

Our code is open source. Feel free to fork and try on your own, or send pull requests. We’re always interested in what people figure out to do with Fuzzy.ai.

One of the great outcomes of the AIFest event in Montréal last weekend was an increased sense of unity among the different parts of the AI ecosystem here. We are all working together to make AI a new industry in this city.

To that end, we have created an open letter to the applicants for the AI Supercluster program in Montréal. This is a federal program to invest in AI. We want to work with government, industry and academia to make the ecosystem a success.

The letter is at wearemtlai.org. Fuzzy.ai’s co-founders have signed as well as dozens of leaders in the community. We encourage participants big and small to make their voices heard. We can only do this if we work together.

This version brings the Python SDK up to the same level of functionality as other SDKs, and provides support for Python 2 and 3, a better unit testing framework, and some other software engineering improvements.

Fuzzy.ai was featured on Product Hunt last week, both on the site and in the email newsletter. We were happy to get a huge response from the community — a ton of comments and upvotes. We’re now in the top 10 API products of all time and top 20 AI products. Exciting stuff!